how, exactly, is spending over a billion dollars to halt a renewable energy project
Maybe it's to Make Germany Great Again?
I'm sure that would track with this administration (*cough* Stephen Miller *cough*) and its supporters...
This has nothing to do with rationality.
Wind turbines have long been a hate object for Trump.
He has claimed that they cause cancer and that they ruin the environment, etc.
And they obscure the ocean view from his beach-front golf course in Scotland.
(He lost the legal battle to have hem stopped/removed.)
How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle
Cancellation payouts so far this year for wind projects and lease terminations:
$1.2B to RWE AG
$928M to TotalEnergies SE
$900M to Golden State and Bluepoint
$765M to Invenergy
These deals of course were made very strongly,
Could Sleepy Joe have done this?
Of course not.
I'm not keen on tying ourselves with Florida in any way.
(I say this after having spent my freshman year at USF in Tampa way back.)
Aren't most of the stories written around these three rules about ambiguities and loopholes
Yes, and the point you quoted still stands, they are a starting point.
The always relevant XKCD comic explains it well enough: those laws in that order are essential as the starting point. Different order or missing entirely is guaranteed bad. But as pointed out through all kinds of science fiction writing, there are many ways we can understand they are insufficient.
Right now I'd agree they're exactly backwards, or as the XKCD comic described, on track to become a "killbot hellscape". We need even more rules and regulations than that, but as a set of fairly obvious first steps penned 80 years ago, they're pretty blatantly an essential first draft of baseline rules that are missing today.
Good thing we hardly are made out of any bacteria.
Wait...
In which subfield is development not happening rapidly?
Won't you want those things to be software upgradable?
Aren't most of the stories written around these three rules about ambiguities and loopholes, how they're incomplete, misinterpreted, misapplied and how things otherwise go wrong - for us humans? An AI determining that humans must be perpetually babysat to prevent them from injuring themselves or others is a common storyline.
Almost every story in his robot series is about the ways the Three Laws fail — the edge cases, the interpretations, the unintended consequences of simple rules applied to a complex world. The Laws were a starting point, and his fiction was a decades-long exploration of why starting points are never enough.
I love how you gave zero fucks about birds being killed
Cats followed by glass buildings kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines, which are about 9th on the list.
No, President Trump: Wind turbines aren't killing 'all the birds.' Cats are.
Wind Turbines & Birds: Myths & Facts Uncovered
Cats, cars, buildings and vehicles kill about 6,000 times more birds than wind turbines do. The biggest killer of birds in the U.S. by a long shot is domestic cats. After cats, building collisions due to glass (599 million bird deaths annually, on average) and vehicle collisions (214.5 million annually) pose the second and third biggest threats to birds. Poison kills an estimated 72 million birds each year, and collisions with electrical lines result in 25 million deaths annually. Then, way down at No. 9 on the list of threats to birds is wind turbines, which caused an average of 234,012 bird deaths annually.
When you run a government like a business it's not there for you it's there for the owners. And if you're reading this you are not an owner.
Even worse? Running a business like Trump runs a business - or a casino (six filed for bankruptcy).
Businesses of Donald Trump that went bankrupt (24)
D - Donald J. Trump Foundation
G - Golden Nugget Atlantic City, GoTrump.com
H - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City
N - New Jersey Generals
P - Paradox Hotel Vancouver, Plaza Hotel
T - TD Trump Deutschland, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump Ice, Trump Institute, Trump magazines, Trump Mortgage, The Trump Network, Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Trump Productions, Trump Shuttle, Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump World's Fair, Trump: The Game, Trumped!
The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong -- until the next person quits or is fired.
